Allostasis and Korean Medicine Revisited: A Protocol for Mapping Concepts, Measurement, and Translational Hypotheses
This protocol re-examines claims advanced in the 2012 series “Allostasis and Korean Medicine” using contemporary conceptual scholarship, biomedical literature, classical Korean-medicine sources, and counter-evidence. It does not equate Korean-medicine concepts with allostasis; instead, it distinguishes analogy, operational correspondence, mechanistic bridges, and testable translational hypotheses. Only public literature is used, and no treatment recommendation or patient-level conclusion is produced.